Daren Altman, drummer and voiceover artist
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"Very nice work Darren. Terrific accents, dialects and impressions. It's obvious that you've spent considerable time behind the microphone. I'd say you have a long and illustrious career ahead of you."

- Don LaFontaine. Voiceover legend!

A professional drummer, Darren studied at Trinity College Of Music, Leeds College of Music and The Guildhall School of Music And Drama. Darren has a unique understanting and consideration of pitch, timing, pace and intonation and his remarkably keen ear makes Darren extremely versatile and adaptable.

He will deliver straights reads and narrations, commercial on-hold messages, upbeat and trendy promos and adverts, radio jingles and an incredible range of charatcers, impressions, accents and voices, perfect for wacky reads,computer games and cartoons!

Working from his home studio, he is happy to offer dry or fully produced reads, with music and sound effects. He is also available through Skype or iChat, for you to listen into the recording process and offer direction, communicating with him throughout the session! He really does have to be heard to be believed! Check out some examples of the range of styles that Darren can deliver:

Adverts - and plenty of em!!
Narrations - A sample of 'straight' reads
Characters & accents galore!!
Radio Imaging
Jingles, stings, Podcast intros and much more!!
Impressions
Spot the celeb!
Dolphin World commercial
David Attenborough Impression! For Spanish Radio
Urban/Youth showreel - a more hip/street reel! The Simpsons
See how many characters you can spot!

VIDEOS

Below is a link to a corporate video I voiced for X-Box. This is a WMV file, please give it a little time to load.

This commericial for mens clothing website Jacamo is currently airing on Sky News & Sport, The Discovery network, Bravo, Dave, Sci-fi, Viacom and ITV4. Click on the image below to see the ad!

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I recently recorded some celebrity impressions for Virgin Mobile, for the download section of their mobile phones - great fun to do! Here's what they did with them - Please give them a minute to download. Click on the image below to see the clips!

For all you gamers, you can hear me playing High Tribelord Balor, son of Oghmar in Dimensity, a new PC adventure game. Click on the image below to see the trailer. Mine is right before the final voice!

Home Studio

Darren works from his home studio, where he records and produces voiceovers and is happy to travel to studios in London and the surrounding areas, which he can be at within the hour. He is happy to send you your voiceover via email, FTP or conventional mail in a variety of formats which include MP3, WAV and AIFF.

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